[CentOS] What's up with the mailing list spam?

Fri Jan 4 16:32:30 UTC 2008
MatsK <mkn0014 at gmail.com>

Johnny Hughes wrote:
> Ray Van Dolson wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 03:22:35PM +0100, Ralph Angenendt wrote:
>>> Matt Shields wrote:
>>>> Just this morning I've gotten 3 or 4 pieces of spam on the CentOS mailing list.
>>> Tell us how we should reject that in advance and we will. Yes, the
>>> "user" was subscribed.
>>>
>> Clearly you should assign an infinite number of monkeys to the problem!
>>
>> Is kinda weird though; I've also seen posts from what I assume to be
>> the same spam source (and around the exact same time) on the
>> dell linux-poweredge list.
>>
>> They'll unsubscribe the offenders and the problem will go away.  This
>> thing pops up from time to time.
>>
> 
> This is happening in other places too, with this specific user/mail.
> 
> We are putting things in place to block / mod these users, but we
> already have a positive email required and e-mail activation based on a
> link to the address.
> 
> We also have rbl list blocking on the server ... and spam scoring.
> 
> There is not much else we can do except block the offenders when they
> happen.
> 
> OR moderate all posts ... who wants to volunteer to read and release all
> posts :-D
> 
> Thanks,
> Johnny Hughes

Maybee this is why its more common to see weird pictures with text in 
them so its harder to script is ?

/Mats